Full Story: "After enduring howls in the night and creaking staircases for the past three years, an Italian family is preparing to sue the previous owners of their house for not telling them it was haunted.
Gaetano Bastianelli, 57, and his wife Stefania paid €120,000 (£94,000) for the modern home in the Umbrian town of Spoleto in 2005 - encouraged by the fact that all the furniture and fittings were left by the owners, right down to the coffee cups. 'We considered it the deal of the century,' said Mr Bastianelli.
The couple claim they were unaware that the house in Santo Chiodo road had been built close to the disused Pozzi Ginori cemetery, or that strange goings-on at the address during the 1970s had necessitated an exorcism - and prompted a visit from Perugia University's paranormal research team.
advertisement'The ghosts started their haunting on the first night,' said Mr Bastianelli, a former long-distance lorry driver. 'I woke suddenly at around one or two in the morning. There was water seeping from under the bathroom door.
'The hot water tap was pouring out boiling water and the room was full of steam. My wife was stunned, because she had turned off everything before going to bed.'
He claimed that by next morning, malevolent spirits had left 'luminous green mould all over the walls'.
After that things got worse. He said the sound of chains rattling had alarmed his 10-year-old daughter, and claimed that the lawnmower and his wife's car had spontaneously combusted."
The Devil you say
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Sunday
Pastor stole church funds
Full Story: "WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - A White Plains, New York, pastor has been accused of stealing money from his church to feed a gambling habit.
The chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York told parishioners that Rev. Patrick Dunne has been permanently removed from Our Lady of Sorrows Church.
Monsignor William Belford says prosecutors are investigating the possible misuse of parish funds. Belford says Dunne, who had been pastor since 1991, has a 'very powerful' gambling addiction"
Pastor bets the church
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The chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York told parishioners that Rev. Patrick Dunne has been permanently removed from Our Lady of Sorrows Church.
Monsignor William Belford says prosecutors are investigating the possible misuse of parish funds. Belford says Dunne, who had been pastor since 1991, has a 'very powerful' gambling addiction"
Pastor bets the church
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Thursday
$1350 Corn Flake
Full Story: "WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois will join Jack Ruby’s hat and Marilyn Monroe’s datebook in a traveling exhibit.
An Internet trivia site submitted a winning bid of $1,350 for the famous flake, found by two sisters and put up for auction. The owner collects Americana items to put in a planned traveling museum.
“That’s the most perfectly Illinois-shaped corn flake I’ve ever seen,” said Jon Wolf as he accepted the flake, swaddled in a cotton-lined jewelry box."
Something Flakey Here
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An Internet trivia site submitted a winning bid of $1,350 for the famous flake, found by two sisters and put up for auction. The owner collects Americana items to put in a planned traveling museum.
“That’s the most perfectly Illinois-shaped corn flake I’ve ever seen,” said Jon Wolf as he accepted the flake, swaddled in a cotton-lined jewelry box."
Something Flakey Here
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Saturday
Even in space your boomerang will come back
Full Story: "Takao Doi 'threw a boomerang and saw it come back' on March 18 at the International Space Station, a spokeswoman at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said yesterday.
Dr Doi, an engineering expert, carried out the 'experiment' after a request from Yasuhiro Togai, a world boomerang champion.
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The result opens up the question of why boomerangs on earth return to their thrower. It had been thought that gravity was necessary, and many people had expected Dr Doi's boomerang would fly upwards if released in space.
'I was very surprised and moved to see that it flew the same way it does on Earth,' the 53-year-old astronaut told his wife from space."
Dr Doi, an engineering expert, carried out the 'experiment' after a request from Yasuhiro Togai, a world boomerang champion.
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The result opens up the question of why boomerangs on earth return to their thrower. It had been thought that gravity was necessary, and many people had expected Dr Doi's boomerang would fly upwards if released in space.
'I was very surprised and moved to see that it flew the same way it does on Earth,' the 53-year-old astronaut told his wife from space."
Croatian claims biggest chocolate castle
Full Story: "A Croatian man claimed Saturday that he has built the biggest castle made of chocolate after working for 24 hours on his candy construction in a central Zagreb square, national television reported.
The three-meter (10 feet) high construction with six-by-two-meter base was made of chocolate bars from a local producer Kras.
The candy castle builder, Krunoslav Budiselic, boasted that his effort deserved a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Some 100,000 chocolate bars were used to build the castle, which weighs 10 tonnes.
After the castle was built its 'bricks' were being sold as part of a charity event ahead of Easter to help disabled athletes."
Sweet !
The three-meter (10 feet) high construction with six-by-two-meter base was made of chocolate bars from a local producer Kras.
The candy castle builder, Krunoslav Budiselic, boasted that his effort deserved a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Some 100,000 chocolate bars were used to build the castle, which weighs 10 tonnes.
After the castle was built its 'bricks' were being sold as part of a charity event ahead of Easter to help disabled athletes."
Sweet !
Wednesday
Firefighters pull foal from septic tank
Full Story: "CITRA, Fla. - Nearly a dozen central Florida firefighters pulled a 2-month-old foal from some deep doo-doo after the little horse fell into a septic tank.
Rescuers spent more than an hour Tuesday using hoses and ropes to save the animal who escaped with his mother Reba from a fenced in area.
When Reba crossed over a septic tank, her weight either broke or displaced the cover and Shooter fell into about 3 feet of foul water.
Shooter was rescued, smelly but unharmed, with only minor cuts."
This horse is in deep SH*T !
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Rescuers spent more than an hour Tuesday using hoses and ropes to save the animal who escaped with his mother Reba from a fenced in area.
When Reba crossed over a septic tank, her weight either broke or displaced the cover and Shooter fell into about 3 feet of foul water.
Shooter was rescued, smelly but unharmed, with only minor cuts."
This horse is in deep SH*T !
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Tuesday
Naked Man does $1000's in damage in stores
Full Story: "LANCASTER, Pa. - A hotel and grocery store are assessing damage after a naked man ran amok and allegedly did thousands of dollars' worth of damage.
West Lampeter Township police say they were dispatched to the Willow Valley Resort, and later Darrenkamp's Market, on Friday amid reports of a nude man on a rampage. Authorities say some office space at the resort was trashed and a forklift was driven into an interior wall, also damaging an overhead sewer pipe."
They call him the Streak !
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West Lampeter Township police say they were dispatched to the Willow Valley Resort, and later Darrenkamp's Market, on Friday amid reports of a nude man on a rampage. Authorities say some office space at the resort was trashed and a forklift was driven into an interior wall, also damaging an overhead sewer pipe."
They call him the Streak !
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Monday
Teen steals gas from Cop Car
Full Story: "LAMBERTVILLE, Mich. - A Monroe County sheriff's detective on a stakeout to catch an arsonist arrested the suspect as he tried to steal gas from the officer's cruiser. Officers were placed around homes currently under construction after police had gotten two arson complaints within the past week.
Several officers, including Detective Thomas Redmond, watched the 17-year-old walk away from his Lambertville home early Sunday carrying a bucket before he approached Redmond's unmarked vehicle.
Police say the teen unscrewed the gas cap and started siphoning the fuel before Redmond got out of the car and chased him.
Authorities say the teen later admitted to the two arsons as well as three other arsons in 2006."
Gas makes you desperate
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Several officers, including Detective Thomas Redmond, watched the 17-year-old walk away from his Lambertville home early Sunday carrying a bucket before he approached Redmond's unmarked vehicle.
Police say the teen unscrewed the gas cap and started siphoning the fuel before Redmond got out of the car and chased him.
Authorities say the teen later admitted to the two arsons as well as three other arsons in 2006."
Gas makes you desperate
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Sunday
Lusty father given rousing send-off at funeral
Full Story: "Cai Ruigong, a resident of Taichung county in Taiwan province, invited a stripper to perform a 10-minute dance at his father's funeral last Tuesday.
Cai burned incense in front of his father's coffin and said he hoped he would appreciate the dance. He even urged his father's spirit to extend his hand from the coffin to touch the girl if he liked.
Cai's father died at the age of 103 after a hard life bringing up six children. His favorite hobby was to watch strip shows.
When Cai celebrated his father's 95th birthday, the old man said jokingly he wanted strippers to dance for him at his funeral if he lived to be 100."
What a way to Go !
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Cai burned incense in front of his father's coffin and said he hoped he would appreciate the dance. He even urged his father's spirit to extend his hand from the coffin to touch the girl if he liked.
Cai's father died at the age of 103 after a hard life bringing up six children. His favorite hobby was to watch strip shows.
When Cai celebrated his father's 95th birthday, the old man said jokingly he wanted strippers to dance for him at his funeral if he lived to be 100."
What a way to Go !
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Bankers Hours
Full Story: "Don't bank on it
An armed bank robber thought he had planned the perfect crime, until he discovered his target had closed for the day.
He arrived at the Citizens and Northern Bank in the Pennsylvania borough of Liberty and waited in his car for about 20 minutes. Shortly after noon, he tried to enter the bank wearing a ski mask and carrying a rifle. But the branch closed at 12 on that day, leaving him stranded.
He fled the scene, but bank employees took a note of his registration plate. A 28-year-old suspect is now awaiting trial."
Right place, Wrong Time !
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An armed bank robber thought he had planned the perfect crime, until he discovered his target had closed for the day.
He arrived at the Citizens and Northern Bank in the Pennsylvania borough of Liberty and waited in his car for about 20 minutes. Shortly after noon, he tried to enter the bank wearing a ski mask and carrying a rifle. But the branch closed at 12 on that day, leaving him stranded.
He fled the scene, but bank employees took a note of his registration plate. A 28-year-old suspect is now awaiting trial."
Right place, Wrong Time !
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Thursday
Town offers $5 bounty on stray cats
Full Story: "Tiny Iowa town offers $5 bounty on stray cats "
DES MOINES, Iowa - Attention, cat haters: There's money to be made in Randolph, Iowa, where the town is offering a $5 bounty for each feral feline turned in.
Mayor Vance Trively says the town of 200 in southwestern Iowa is being overrun by dozens of feral cats and needs to do something. Town officials approved the bounty after receiving numerous complaints, ranging from a cat attacking a small dog to a dozen strays showing up at the bowl when a resident tried to feed his own cat."
$5 a cat
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DES MOINES, Iowa - Attention, cat haters: There's money to be made in Randolph, Iowa, where the town is offering a $5 bounty for each feral feline turned in.
Mayor Vance Trively says the town of 200 in southwestern Iowa is being overrun by dozens of feral cats and needs to do something. Town officials approved the bounty after receiving numerous complaints, ranging from a cat attacking a small dog to a dozen strays showing up at the bowl when a resident tried to feed his own cat."
$5 a cat
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Wednesday
Vegas man paints car like police cruiser
Full Story: "LAS VEGAS, N.M. - Jessie Vigil's black-and-white car sports a red-and-blue emergency bar across the top and the word 'police' painted on the doors. Vigil, however, isn't a cop. Law enforcement agencies say what he's done with his car isn't illegal as long as he doesn't act like a police officer.
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He started decorating his 2007 Ford Mustang last summer to look like the police cruiser in the 'Transformers' movie because his 7-year-old son, Thomas, was fond of the film.
'My intent was to re-create the movie car,' said Vigil, a 35-year-old disabled veteran from the war in Iraq. 'When I came back from Iraq, I tried to spoil him. I wasn't the best dad before.'
He said he called the district attorney's office beforehand and spoke to Chief Deputy District Attorney Joe Ulibarri, who tried to discourage his decorating scheme but couldn't find anything in the law that would stop Vigil as long as he didn't impersonate an officer."
Bad boy, bad boy, watcha going to do !
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He started decorating his 2007 Ford Mustang last summer to look like the police cruiser in the 'Transformers' movie because his 7-year-old son, Thomas, was fond of the film.
'My intent was to re-create the movie car,' said Vigil, a 35-year-old disabled veteran from the war in Iraq. 'When I came back from Iraq, I tried to spoil him. I wasn't the best dad before.'
He said he called the district attorney's office beforehand and spoke to Chief Deputy District Attorney Joe Ulibarri, who tried to discourage his decorating scheme but couldn't find anything in the law that would stop Vigil as long as he didn't impersonate an officer."
Bad boy, bad boy, watcha going to do !
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Tuesday
Pink Poodle Brings Fine
Full Story: "BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A Boulder woman facing a $1,000 fine for dyeing her poodle pink has hired a lawyer to fight the charge in court.
Joy Douglas says she dyed Cici, her white miniature poodle, to call attention to breast cancer. She says she used beet juice and Kool-Aid.
She was ticketed March 1 under a Boulder ordinance that makes it illegal to dye animals. The ordinance is designed discourage people from dyeing rabbits and chicks for Easter."
In The Pink !
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Joy Douglas says she dyed Cici, her white miniature poodle, to call attention to breast cancer. She says she used beet juice and Kool-Aid.
She was ticketed March 1 under a Boulder ordinance that makes it illegal to dye animals. The ordinance is designed discourage people from dyeing rabbits and chicks for Easter."
In The Pink !
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Monday
Accident cancels 800 pound man's date !
Full Story: "MEXICO CITY - When Manuel Uribe went out on a date, he made all the necessary arrangements: a forklift to carry him out of the house and a flatbed tow truck big enough to haul the formerly half-ton man and his bed to a party.
But even the open road wasn't big enough to handle Uribe's dream of celebrating a budding romance and his success in losing about 440 pounds"
A BIG date nite !
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But even the open road wasn't big enough to handle Uribe's dream of celebrating a budding romance and his success in losing about 440 pounds"
A BIG date nite !
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Sunday
Md. Police Officers Ignore Speed Cameras
Full Story: "ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - No matter what the cameras say, some drivers are refusing to pay dozens of $40 speeding fines. Who? Police officers.
In the last eight months of 2007, Montgomery County's new speed cameras recorded 224 cases in which police vehicles were recorded traveling more than 10 mph over the speed limit, according to department records.
Supervisors dismissed 76 of those citations after determining the officers were responding to calls or had valid reasons to break the speed limit.
But that left 148 who didn't have that excuse, and about two-thirds of those citations haven't been paid, said police Lt. Paul Starks."
Do as I say , not as I do ?
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In the last eight months of 2007, Montgomery County's new speed cameras recorded 224 cases in which police vehicles were recorded traveling more than 10 mph over the speed limit, according to department records.
Supervisors dismissed 76 of those citations after determining the officers were responding to calls or had valid reasons to break the speed limit.
But that left 148 who didn't have that excuse, and about two-thirds of those citations haven't been paid, said police Lt. Paul Starks."
Do as I say , not as I do ?
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Friday
Wife finally fulfills dream by becoming a woman
Full Story: "A man from a poor rural family in Heilongjiang province who had been living as another man's wife for 11 years recently fulfilled his dream of becoming a woman by having a sex change operation in Tianjin municipality.
Li Xue, who is in his 30s, had been dreaming of living as a woman since he was a child, much to the consternation of his family. He left his hometown for a vagabond's life, during which he met his future husband. They married in 1997.
Li's husband and his mother both accepted him as a woman and supported his idea of living as a real woman by having a sex change. A local hospital agreed to carry out the procedure for free."
She's a what ???
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Li Xue, who is in his 30s, had been dreaming of living as a woman since he was a child, much to the consternation of his family. He left his hometown for a vagabond's life, during which he met his future husband. They married in 1997.
Li's husband and his mother both accepted him as a woman and supported his idea of living as a real woman by having a sex change. A local hospital agreed to carry out the procedure for free."
She's a what ???
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Thursday
No more Hot Dog carts ?
Full Story: "Vancouverites may be buying bananas over bratwursts from the city's street vendors if Coun. Heather Deal has her way.
Deal is forwarding a motion next week to have Vancouver's Food Policy Council report on increasing healthy food options made available through the city's street vendor program.
'I love the hotdog carts ... but we live in an incredibly multicultural city with all kinds of different food,' Deal said. 'I think it would be really great for people to have that variety available.'
The Vision councillor said she clued in on the idea to expand food options after learning of a recent New York City council decision to issue 1,000 permits for mobile fruit and vegetable stands in an effort to target obesity in low-income neighbourhoods where affordable produce is hard to find."
I just want a Hot Dog
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Deal is forwarding a motion next week to have Vancouver's Food Policy Council report on increasing healthy food options made available through the city's street vendor program.
'I love the hotdog carts ... but we live in an incredibly multicultural city with all kinds of different food,' Deal said. 'I think it would be really great for people to have that variety available.'
The Vision councillor said she clued in on the idea to expand food options after learning of a recent New York City council decision to issue 1,000 permits for mobile fruit and vegetable stands in an effort to target obesity in low-income neighbourhoods where affordable produce is hard to find."
I just want a Hot Dog
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You have to act to Smoke !
Full Story: "MAPLEWOOD, Minn. - All the world's a stage at some of Minnesota's bars.
A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them 'actors.'
The customers are playing right along, merrily puffing away and sometimes speaking in funny accents and doing a little improvisation, too.
The state Health Department is threatening to bring the curtain down on these sham productions. But for now, it's on with the show."
Smoking Law - Up in smoke !
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A new state ban on smoking in restaurants and other nightspots contains an exception for performers in theatrical productions. So some bars are getting around the ban by printing up playbills, encouraging customers to come in costume, and pronouncing them 'actors.'
The customers are playing right along, merrily puffing away and sometimes speaking in funny accents and doing a little improvisation, too.
The state Health Department is threatening to bring the curtain down on these sham productions. But for now, it's on with the show."
Smoking Law - Up in smoke !
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Tuesday
World's smallest Mother ?
Full Story: "A woman who is just 28 inches tall believes she has set the world record for the smallest person ever to give birth.
Stacey Herald was told by doctors that having a child could kill her, crushing her internal organs.
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But the 33-year-old recently gave birth to her second daughter, Makya, who measured 18ins when she entered the world.
Guinness World Records is now investigating whether Mrs Herald, from Dry Ridge, Kentucky, US is officially the smallest mother"
Good things from small packages
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Stacey Herald was told by doctors that having a child could kill her, crushing her internal organs.
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But the 33-year-old recently gave birth to her second daughter, Makya, who measured 18ins when she entered the world.
Guinness World Records is now investigating whether Mrs Herald, from Dry Ridge, Kentucky, US is officially the smallest mother"
Good things from small packages
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Teens sharing Naked Photos via cell phones !!
Full Story: "FARMINGTON, Utah — Teenagers using cell phones, Web cams and the Internet to share naked images of themselves have prompted a Utah attorney general to revisit how such cases should be handled.
A group of 13- and 14-year-old boys and girls at Farmington Junior High School traded headless nude self-portraits with each other on cell phones in January, but there are several other similar unrelated cases.
'The conduct involved here runs the spectrum from being less severe to some shocking-type behavior,' said Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings.
'Some were engaged in producing and distributing, some were engaged in just taking pictures of themselves and showing.'"
I taught them to share
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A group of 13- and 14-year-old boys and girls at Farmington Junior High School traded headless nude self-portraits with each other on cell phones in January, but there are several other similar unrelated cases.
'The conduct involved here runs the spectrum from being less severe to some shocking-type behavior,' said Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings.
'Some were engaged in producing and distributing, some were engaged in just taking pictures of themselves and showing.'"
I taught them to share
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Sunday
Leap Day Gift
Full Story: "LA CROSSE, Wis. - It was the perfect gift for someone born on Feb. 29 - a Leap Day grandchild.
As Julie Austin of Galesville prepared to observe her Leap Year birthday on Friday, she was hoping to share the special day with the latest addition to her family."
What are the odds ?
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As Julie Austin of Galesville prepared to observe her Leap Year birthday on Friday, she was hoping to share the special day with the latest addition to her family."
What are the odds ?
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Free for all turns in to N.Y. Free-for-all
Full Story: "NEW YORK - Even giving away something for free can turn into a hassle in New York.
Take the case of a video-sharing website which set out to observe Leap Day by handing out prizes worth up to $29 on Feb. 29 outside Union Square Park.
As the clock ticked toward the event's scheduled time - 2:29 p.m. - people began shouting 'Make it rain!' and 'Give me my money!' as they trampled one another and mobbed"
Only in N.Y.C.
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Take the case of a video-sharing website which set out to observe Leap Day by handing out prizes worth up to $29 on Feb. 29 outside Union Square Park.
As the clock ticked toward the event's scheduled time - 2:29 p.m. - people began shouting 'Make it rain!' and 'Give me my money!' as they trampled one another and mobbed"
Only in N.Y.C.
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